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Investing for children can be tricky, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer says that if you do it right, it can leave your loved ones much better off by the time they grow up than if you avoid it altogether. “Parents, grandparents, listen up. You can give all sorts of things to families that had just had

There used to be a widespread understanding in the stock market that stocks could be here today and gone tomorrow, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer finds that that’s not the case anymore. “We’ve gone well beyond that,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Those days are long over, and if you recommend a stock for a trade,

Howard Marks reassessed his thoughts on bitcoin after starkly warning his clients against the high-flying digital currency in July. The co-chairman of Oaktree Capital is famous for his prescient investment memos, which predicted the financial crisis and the dot-com bubble implosion. “There has been particularly spirited response to my comments on digital currencies,” Marks wrote

CNBC’s Jim Cramer cringed when he read a study that said students who graduate with no debt end up being worth more than classmates with outstanding loans. “For any of you who are parents or are thinking about becoming parents, let me just tell you right now that there are very few things you can

If you’ve hated being forced to wait three days after selling a well-performing (or losing) investment to get your cash, you will likely get it a bit faster now. As of Tuesday, most broker-dealer securities transactions — i.e., stocks, corporate and municipal bonds, and exchange-traded funds — must settle within two business days instead of

Jim Cramer is an expert at detecting a stock with an attractive growth story, even when it’s not the popular thing to do. After all, Wall Street is merely a fashion show with stocks falling in and out of favor quickly. “Solid growth stories are hard to come by, and when you find them, you

Finally, Cramer erred his grievances about Monday’s after-hours trading, when panicked sellers made some trades that truly astonished the “Mad Money” host. First, traders fled the stock of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant that many have compared with Amazon. “I can’t believe I even need to spell this one out, but Alibaba’s a Chinese company,

Then, Cramer spoke with Veeva Systems founder and CEO Peter Gassner, who spoke to the cloud company’s new QualityOne product. The cloud-based quality management program applies to new fields for Veeva that include cosmetics, chemicals, food and industrial manufacturing, Gassner said. “We have an offering for them now, and we’re just starting to get traction

As federal and local authorities rush to mitigate the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey, CNBC’s Jim Cramer took to tracking the storm’s impact on industries in its path. “No two horrendous storms are alike. They’re all terrible, and while it continues, the only thing that matters is that people are dying. Anything else is just

The most simple and reliable chart pattern out there is one that Jim Cramer dreads. Unfortunately, Cramer learned not to ignore the head-and-shoulders pattern the hard way when his charitable trust bought Alcoa — which spun off its aluminum business in November 2016 under the name Alcoa and is now known as Arconic — in

Technicals and fundamentals are Jim Cramer’s key tools for determining when a stock is ready to explode. “Typically, when a stock gets overbought, it is ripe for a pullback because overbought stocks, ones with many buyers reaching to take in supply, tend to snap back after they have gotten too far away from their longer

Finally, Cramer spoke with Rick Bergman, the CEO of Synaptics, a company that develops interface solutions like displays, touchpads and fingerprint sensors. “Some of the key cycles are really in our favor,” Bergman told Cramer on Thursday. “There’s a big transition ongoing in the smartphone market around new display types, and over the last several

Tesla is not considering raising more equity at this point, CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday “We are not at this point considering an equity raise, we are thinking about debt,” Musk said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call. “But we are not thinking about an equity raise.” Some analysts have expected Tesla to return to

One of Cramer’s cardinal rules is to never turn a trade into an investment. If there is one thing he wants investors to take away from “Mad Money,” it is to never confuse these two concepts. That means understanding the purpose of why you are buying a stock. Sometimes an investor will buy a stock

It has been a decade since Stephen Schwarzman listed Blackstone, his private equity firm, on the New York Stock Exchange. By most measures, the past 10 years have been good to both Mr Schwarzman and Blackstone. Its asset base quadrupled to nearly $400bn. His name adorns the New York Public Library’s landmark Fifth Avenue building

Finally, Cramer delved into a merger on the horizon that he believes could be one of next year’s best combinations: between American industrial gas giant Praxair and German chemicals company Linde. “First of all, it’s a huge transaction,” Cramer said. “The combination of the American Praxair and the German Linde, which is going to keep

Luis took the helm at a difficult time for the company, which was having trouble re-defining its luxury brand after issuing cheaper products that drove away wealthier customers. “If you want to sell expensive handbags, you need people to believe that they’re going to be exclusive, but Coach had lost what we call ‘the aspirational

As Wall Street digests Amazon’s $13.7 billion offer to buy Whole Foods Market, Jim Cramer flagged some key events and reports on the horizon that could further sway the market. “It’s tough to come back to earth after trying to explore the implications of the most disruptive, most game-changing takeover I can recall, … Amazon’s

While those plans got sidetracked when activist firm Jana Partners took a stake in the company and started pushing for a sale, Cramer said Amazon’s takeover could bring them new life. “I know anyone in grocery was crushed by this today and that makes sense, at least initially. Yes, it’s that much of a disruption